The election campaign is well and truly under way, with candidates making all kinds of far fetched promises. The first campaign documentaries have started screening in an environment of strict censorship. In this episode, Dr James Barry is joined by Dr Elham Naeej and Dr Ali Mozaffari to discuss the campaign documentaries released so far, the rise of the election dark horse, Abdol-Naser Hemmati, and the latest antics of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

In the second half of the show, special guest Dr Mahmoud Pargoo discusses the findings of his latest book, Presidential Elections in Iran (co-authored with Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh), describing the secularisation of political discourse in Iran since the Revolution.